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CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
ZABRINA ALEGUIRE
Acting Legal Director January 11, 2016. through June 2016 Zabrina Aleguire is the Acting Legal Director at the Equal Justice Society (effective January 11, 2016). Zabrina was previously Senior Staff Attorney and Education Project Director at Legal Services for Children (LSC) in San Francisco. At LSC, she defended students in expulsion hearings and advocated on a NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primaryLESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals accepted an amicus brief (https://bit.ly/3wLmnwS) by the Equal Justice Society (EJS) and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC filed in Yu v.Idaho State University. The brief supports a former doctoral psychology candidate’s national origin discrimination suit arguing that implicit bias is probative and may be used as evidence of intentional discrimination under ABOUT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY About the Equal Justice Society The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-life experience. DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
ZABRINA ALEGUIRE
Acting Legal Director January 11, 2016. through June 2016 Zabrina Aleguire is the Acting Legal Director at the Equal Justice Society (effective January 11, 2016). Zabrina was previously Senior Staff Attorney and Education Project Director at Legal Services for Children (LSC) in San Francisco. At LSC, she defended students in expulsion hearings and advocated on a NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primaryLESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights mattersLEGAL PROGRAM
Update July 20, 2020: EJS Supports Transforming Public Safety EJS is a national civil rights legal organization working to fully restore the constitutional protections of the Fourteenth Amendment by replacing the Intent Standard with a disparate impact standard that addresses contemporary forms of racism. As heirs of the innovative legal and political strategists of Brown CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
EJS SUPPORTS TRANSFORMING PUBLIC SAFETY EJS Supports Transforming Public Safety. We are at a unique moment in our nation’s history. The 2020 pandemic of COVID-19 illuminated the realities of the centuries-old pandemic of structural racism that was only further exposed through the brutal murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd by police officers and Whitevigilantes.
ATTACKS ON ASIAN AMERICANS The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-lifeexperience.
SUPPORT AB 15 AND AB 16 TO PROTECT RENTERS As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, millions of California renters are staring down an eviction cliff as the current state eviction ban is set to expire on February 1. We need to immediately pass AB 15 and AB 16 by Assemblymember David Chiu to extend eviction protections for renters impacted by COVID-19 through next year, and establish aframework
NEW REPORT: THE SUPREME COURT IS A GRAVE THREAT TO RACIAL The current right-wing Supreme Court majority is one of the greatest threats to racial justice and equity in recent American history, a new report from Take Back the Court and the Equal Justice Society argues. The six conservative justices’ judicial philosophies and jurisprudence on matters of race threaten progress on a wide range ofracial
AFRICAN AMERICANS STARTED MEMORIAL DAY African Americans Started Memorial Day. May 23, 2014. May 23, 2014. / Eva Paterson. Yesterday as I was driving from San Francisco to Oakland, I heard a news report on NPR that made me cry. Voter suppression, a.k.a. Voter ID laws, have gone into effect in Arkansas, my father’s birthplace.KELLY DERMODY
Kelly Dermody is Managing Partner of the San Francisco office and chair of the employment practice group at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP. Kelly represents employees and consumers in class, collective, and #metoo actions. Kelly currently serves as lead class counsel in five gender discrimination class actions against Fortune100 firms.
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 2 prohibiting construction of multifamily housing, and artificial intelligence programs used to determine creditworthiness for lending purposes.3 The 2013 rule further required the defendant to prove that the challenged practice is “necessary” to achieve a legitimate,nondiscriminatory
EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals accepted an amicus brief (https://bit.ly/3wLmnwS) by the Equal Justice Society (EJS) and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC filed in Yu v.Idaho State University. The brief supports a former doctoral psychology candidate’s national origin discrimination suit arguing that implicit bias is probative and may be used as evidence of intentional discrimination under ABOUT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY About the Equal Justice Society The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-life experience. DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
ZABRINA ALEGUIRE
Acting Legal Director January 11, 2016. through June 2016 Zabrina Aleguire is the Acting Legal Director at the Equal Justice Society (effective January 11, 2016). Zabrina was previously Senior Staff Attorney and Education Project Director at Legal Services for Children (LSC) in San Francisco. At LSC, she defended students in expulsion hearings and advocated on a NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primaryLESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals accepted an amicus brief (https://bit.ly/3wLmnwS) by the Equal Justice Society (EJS) and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC filed in Yu v.Idaho State University. The brief supports a former doctoral psychology candidate’s national origin discrimination suit arguing that implicit bias is probative and may be used as evidence of intentional discrimination under ABOUT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY About the Equal Justice Society The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-life experience. DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
ZABRINA ALEGUIRE
Acting Legal Director January 11, 2016. through June 2016 Zabrina Aleguire is the Acting Legal Director at the Equal Justice Society (effective January 11, 2016). Zabrina was previously Senior Staff Attorney and Education Project Director at Legal Services for Children (LSC) in San Francisco. At LSC, she defended students in expulsion hearings and advocated on a NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primaryLESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights mattersLEGAL PROGRAM
Update July 20, 2020: EJS Supports Transforming Public Safety EJS is a national civil rights legal organization working to fully restore the constitutional protections of the Fourteenth Amendment by replacing the Intent Standard with a disparate impact standard that addresses contemporary forms of racism. As heirs of the innovative legal and political strategists of Brown CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
EJS SUPPORTS TRANSFORMING PUBLIC SAFETY EJS Supports Transforming Public Safety. We are at a unique moment in our nation’s history. The 2020 pandemic of COVID-19 illuminated the realities of the centuries-old pandemic of structural racism that was only further exposed through the brutal murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd by police officers and Whitevigilantes.
ATTACKS ON ASIAN AMERICANS The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-lifeexperience.
SUPPORT AB 15 AND AB 16 TO PROTECT RENTERS As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, millions of California renters are staring down an eviction cliff as the current state eviction ban is set to expire on February 1. We need to immediately pass AB 15 and AB 16 by Assemblymember David Chiu to extend eviction protections for renters impacted by COVID-19 through next year, and establish aframework
NEW REPORT: THE SUPREME COURT IS A GRAVE THREAT TO RACIAL The current right-wing Supreme Court majority is one of the greatest threats to racial justice and equity in recent American history, a new report from Take Back the Court and the Equal Justice Society argues. The six conservative justices’ judicial philosophies and jurisprudence on matters of race threaten progress on a wide range ofracial
AFRICAN AMERICANS STARTED MEMORIAL DAY African Americans Started Memorial Day. May 23, 2014. May 23, 2014. / Eva Paterson. Yesterday as I was driving from San Francisco to Oakland, I heard a news report on NPR that made me cry. Voter suppression, a.k.a. Voter ID laws, have gone into effect in Arkansas, my father’s birthplace.KELLY DERMODY
Kelly Dermody is Managing Partner of the San Francisco office and chair of the employment practice group at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP. Kelly represents employees and consumers in class, collective, and #metoo actions. Kelly currently serves as lead class counsel in five gender discrimination class actions against Fortune100 firms.
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 2 prohibiting construction of multifamily housing, and artificial intelligence programs used to determine creditworthiness for lending purposes.3 The 2013 rule further required the defendant to prove that the challenged practice is “necessary” to achieve a legitimate,nondiscriminatory
EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals accepted an amicus brief (https://bit.ly/3wLmnwS) by the Equal Justice Society (EJS) and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC filed in Yu v.Idaho State University. The brief supports a former doctoral psychology candidate’s national origin discrimination suit arguing that implicit bias is probative and may be used as evidence of intentional discrimination under ABOUT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY About the Equal Justice Society The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-life experience. DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
ZABRINA ALEGUIRE
Acting Legal Director January 11, 2016. through June 2016 Zabrina Aleguire is the Acting Legal Director at the Equal Justice Society (effective January 11, 2016). Zabrina was previously Senior Staff Attorney and Education Project Director at Legal Services for Children (LSC) in San Francisco. At LSC, she defended students in expulsion hearings and advocated on a NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primaryLESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals accepted an amicus brief (https://bit.ly/3wLmnwS) by the Equal Justice Society (EJS) and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC filed in Yu v.Idaho State University. The brief supports a former doctoral psychology candidate’s national origin discrimination suit arguing that implicit bias is probative and may be used as evidence of intentional discrimination under ABOUT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY About the Equal Justice Society The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-life experience. DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
ZABRINA ALEGUIRE
Acting Legal Director January 11, 2016. through June 2016 Zabrina Aleguire is the Acting Legal Director at the Equal Justice Society (effective January 11, 2016). Zabrina was previously Senior Staff Attorney and Education Project Director at Legal Services for Children (LSC) in San Francisco. At LSC, she defended students in expulsion hearings and advocated on a NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primaryLESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights mattersLEGAL PROGRAM
Update July 20, 2020: EJS Supports Transforming Public Safety EJS is a national civil rights legal organization working to fully restore the constitutional protections of the Fourteenth Amendment by replacing the Intent Standard with a disparate impact standard that addresses contemporary forms of racism. As heirs of the innovative legal and political strategists of Brown CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
EJS SUPPORTS TRANSFORMING PUBLIC SAFETY EJS Supports Transforming Public Safety. We are at a unique moment in our nation’s history. The 2020 pandemic of COVID-19 illuminated the realities of the centuries-old pandemic of structural racism that was only further exposed through the brutal murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd by police officers and Whitevigilantes.
ATTACKS ON ASIAN AMERICANS The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-lifeexperience.
SUPPORT AB 15 AND AB 16 TO PROTECT RENTERS As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, millions of California renters are staring down an eviction cliff as the current state eviction ban is set to expire on February 1. We need to immediately pass AB 15 and AB 16 by Assemblymember David Chiu to extend eviction protections for renters impacted by COVID-19 through next year, and establish aframework
NEW REPORT: THE SUPREME COURT IS A GRAVE THREAT TO RACIAL The current right-wing Supreme Court majority is one of the greatest threats to racial justice and equity in recent American history, a new report from Take Back the Court and the Equal Justice Society argues. The six conservative justices’ judicial philosophies and jurisprudence on matters of race threaten progress on a wide range ofracial
AFRICAN AMERICANS STARTED MEMORIAL DAY African Americans Started Memorial Day. May 23, 2014. May 23, 2014. / Eva Paterson. Yesterday as I was driving from San Francisco to Oakland, I heard a news report on NPR that made me cry. Voter suppression, a.k.a. Voter ID laws, have gone into effect in Arkansas, my father’s birthplace.KELLY DERMODY
Kelly Dermody is Managing Partner of the San Francisco office and chair of the employment practice group at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP. Kelly represents employees and consumers in class, collective, and #metoo actions. Kelly currently serves as lead class counsel in five gender discrimination class actions against Fortune100 firms.
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 2 prohibiting construction of multifamily housing, and artificial intelligence programs used to determine creditworthiness for lending purposes.3 The 2013 rule further required the defendant to prove that the challenged practice is “necessary” to achieve a legitimate,nondiscriminatory
EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals accepted an amicus brief (https://bit.ly/3wLmnwS) by the Equal Justice Society (EJS) and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC filed in Yu v.Idaho State University. The brief supports a former doctoral psychology candidate’s national origin discrimination suit arguing that implicit bias is probative and may be used as evidence of intentional discrimination under DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
SUPPORT AB 15 AND AB 16 TO PROTECT RENTERS As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, millions of California renters are staring down an eviction cliff as the current state eviction ban is set to expire on February 1. We need to immediately pass AB 15 and AB 16 by Assemblymember David Chiu to extend eviction protections for renters impacted by COVID-19 through next year, and establish aframework
CHRISTINA ALVERNAZ
Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow (2020-2022) Christina Alvernaz joined the Equal Justice Society in July 2020 as our 2020-2022 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow – a fellowship honoring the first African American woman to serve on the federal bench. The Motley Fellowship is funded by a generous gift fromElizabeth J.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Yes, affirmative action does transform structural racism. Years ago, in graduate school, I did a lot of research on the history of the black labor movement, and the revolutionary developments including strikes in the steel industry and major court decisions – that black workers were responsible for that led to the policy of affirmative action, mandated by the courts, and administeredLESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primary EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals accepted an amicus brief (https://bit.ly/3wLmnwS) by the Equal Justice Society (EJS) and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC filed in Yu v.Idaho State University. The brief supports a former doctoral psychology candidate’s national origin discrimination suit arguing that implicit bias is probative and may be used as evidence of intentional discrimination under DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
SUPPORT AB 15 AND AB 16 TO PROTECT RENTERS As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, millions of California renters are staring down an eviction cliff as the current state eviction ban is set to expire on February 1. We need to immediately pass AB 15 and AB 16 by Assemblymember David Chiu to extend eviction protections for renters impacted by COVID-19 through next year, and establish aframework
CHRISTINA ALVERNAZ
Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow (2020-2022) Christina Alvernaz joined the Equal Justice Society in July 2020 as our 2020-2022 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow – a fellowship honoring the first African American woman to serve on the federal bench. The Motley Fellowship is funded by a generous gift fromElizabeth J.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Yes, affirmative action does transform structural racism. Years ago, in graduate school, I did a lot of research on the history of the black labor movement, and the revolutionary developments including strikes in the steel industry and major court decisions – that black workers were responsible for that led to the policy of affirmative action, mandated by the courts, and administeredLESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primary ABOUT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY About the Equal Justice Society The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-life experience. CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
EJS SUPPORTS TRANSFORMING PUBLIC SAFETY EJS Supports Transforming Public Safety. We are at a unique moment in our nation’s history. The 2020 pandemic of COVID-19 illuminated the realities of the centuries-old pandemic of structural racism that was only further exposed through the brutal murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd by police officers and Whitevigilantes.
INTENT DOCTRINE
The foundation of the Equal Justice Society (EJS) is based on the premise that racial justice cannot be achieved when the law fails to reflect actual experience. Under existing equal protection law, the constricted “Intent Doctrine” (as established in the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision Washington v. Davis) ignores much of what we know about the dynamicsINTENT STANDARD
Challenging the Intent Standard Driven by a vision of a society where race is no longer a barrier to opportunity, EJS is one of few institutions explicitly focused on overturning barriers to implementing the robust anti-discrimination protections inherent in the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. What is the intent NEW REPORT: THE SUPREME COURT IS A GRAVE THREAT TO RACIAL The current right-wing Supreme Court majority is one of the greatest threats to racial justice and equity in recent American history, a new report from Take Back the Court and the Equal Justice Society argues. The six conservative justices’ judicial philosophies and jurisprudence on matters of race threaten progress on a wide range ofracial
LISA HOLDER
Lisa Holder is Of Counsel with the Equal Justice Society. She served as EJS Interim Legal Director from November 2018 through April 2019. Lisa has been part of our legal team as a consulting attorney and/or co-counsel since 2016, helping us with our Kern High School Districtlitigation and
AFRICAN AMERICANS STARTED MEMORIAL DAY African Americans Started Memorial Day. May 23, 2014. May 23, 2014. / Eva Paterson. Yesterday as I was driving from San Francisco to Oakland, I heard a news report on NPR that made me cry. Voter suppression, a.k.a. Voter ID laws, have gone into effect in Arkansas, my father’s birthplace.BERNICE DONALD
Bernice Donald United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The Honorable Bernice B. Donald, a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011, received her law degree from the University of Memphis School of Law, a Masters in Judicial Studies from Duke University, and an honorary Doctors in Law from Suffolk ‘LITIGATING IMPLICIT BIAS’ ARTICLE BY EVA PATERSON IN “Litigating Implicit Bias,” an article by EJS President Eva Paterson, appears in the latest issue of Poverty & Race, a bi-monthly newsletter by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.PRRAC is an organization that connects advocates with social scientists working on race and poverty issues and promotes a research-based advocacy strategy on structural inequality issues. EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals accepted an amicus brief (https://bit.ly/3wLmnwS) by the Equal Justice Society (EJS) and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC filed in Yu v.Idaho State University. The brief supports a former doctoral psychology candidate’s national origin discrimination suit arguing that implicit bias is probative and may be used as evidence of intentional discrimination under DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020INTENT STANDARD
Challenging the Intent Standard Driven by a vision of a society where race is no longer a barrier to opportunity, EJS is one of few institutions explicitly focused on overturning barriers to implementing the robust anti-discrimination protections inherent in the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. What is the intentZABRINA ALEGUIRE
Acting Legal Director January 11, 2016. through June 2016 Zabrina Aleguire is the Acting Legal Director at the Equal Justice Society (effective January 11, 2016). Zabrina was previously Senior Staff Attorney and Education Project Director at Legal Services for Children (LSC) in San Francisco. At LSC, she defended students in expulsion hearings and advocated on aEVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Yes, affirmative action does transform structural racism. Years ago, in graduate school, I did a lot of research on the history of the black labor movement, and the revolutionary developments including strikes in the steel industry and major court decisions – that black workers were responsible for that led to the policy of affirmative action, mandated by the courts, and administered NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primaryLESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals accepted an amicus brief (https://bit.ly/3wLmnwS) by the Equal Justice Society (EJS) and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC filed in Yu v.Idaho State University. The brief supports a former doctoral psychology candidate’s national origin discrimination suit arguing that implicit bias is probative and may be used as evidence of intentional discrimination under DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020INTENT STANDARD
Challenging the Intent Standard Driven by a vision of a society where race is no longer a barrier to opportunity, EJS is one of few institutions explicitly focused on overturning barriers to implementing the robust anti-discrimination protections inherent in the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. What is the intentZABRINA ALEGUIRE
Acting Legal Director January 11, 2016. through June 2016 Zabrina Aleguire is the Acting Legal Director at the Equal Justice Society (effective January 11, 2016). Zabrina was previously Senior Staff Attorney and Education Project Director at Legal Services for Children (LSC) in San Francisco. At LSC, she defended students in expulsion hearings and advocated on aEVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Yes, affirmative action does transform structural racism. Years ago, in graduate school, I did a lot of research on the history of the black labor movement, and the revolutionary developments including strikes in the steel industry and major court decisions – that black workers were responsible for that led to the policy of affirmative action, mandated by the courts, and administered NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primaryLESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters ABOUT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY About the Equal Justice Society The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-life experience. CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
EJS SUPPORTS TRANSFORMING PUBLIC SAFETY EJS Supports Transforming Public Safety. July 20, 2020 – Updated May 25, 2021. We are at a unique moment in our nation’s history. The 2020 pandemic of COVID-19 illuminated the realities of the centuries-old pandemic of structural racism that was only further exposed through the brutal murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor,and George
IMPLICIT BIAS PRIMER Implicit Bias Primer. Neuroscience and the study of implicit bias let us peer into the human brain and unravel the mysteries of why we treat each other with care or cruelty, show empathy or apathy, and legislate to help or to hurt. The primer below provides an overview of implicit bias theory and how it contributes to modern day discrimination. NEW REPORT: THE SUPREME COURT IS A GRAVE THREAT TO RACIAL The current right-wing Supreme Court majority is one of the greatest threats to racial justice and equity in recent American history, a new report from Take Back the Court and the Equal Justice Society argues. The six conservative justices’ judicial philosophies and jurisprudence on matters of race threaten progress on a wide range ofracial
SUPPORT AB 15 AND AB 16 TO PROTECT RENTERS As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, millions of California renters are staring down an eviction cliff as the current state eviction ban is set to expire on February 1. We need to immediately pass AB 15 and AB 16 by Assemblymember David Chiu to extend eviction protections for renters impacted by COVID-19 through next year, and establish aframework
AFRICAN AMERICANS STARTED MEMORIAL DAY African Americans Started Memorial Day. May 23, 2014. May 23, 2014. / Eva Paterson. Yesterday as I was driving from San Francisco to Oakland, I heard a news report on NPR that made me cry. Voter suppression, a.k.a. Voter ID laws, have gone into effect in Arkansas, my father’s birthplace.KELLY DERMODY
Kelly Dermody is Managing Partner of the San Francisco office and chair of the employment practice group at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP. Kelly represents employees and consumers in class, collective, and #metoo actions. Kelly currently serves as lead class counsel in five gender discrimination class actions against Fortune100 firms.
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 2 prohibiting construction of multifamily housing, and artificial intelligence programs used to determine creditworthiness for lending purposes.3 The 2013 rule further required the defendant to prove that the challenged practice is “necessary” to achieve a legitimate,nondiscriminatory
EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals accepted an amicus brief (https://bit.ly/3wLmnwS) by the Equal Justice Society (EJS) and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC filed in Yu v.Idaho State University. The brief supports a former doctoral psychology candidate’s national origin discrimination suit arguing that implicit bias is probative and may be used as evidence of intentional discrimination under DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020INTENT STANDARD
Challenging the Intent Standard Driven by a vision of a society where race is no longer a barrier to opportunity, EJS is one of few institutions explicitly focused on overturning barriers to implementing the robust anti-discrimination protections inherent in the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. What is the intentZABRINA ALEGUIRE
Acting Legal Director January 11, 2016. through June 2016 Zabrina Aleguire is the Acting Legal Director at the Equal Justice Society (effective January 11, 2016). Zabrina was previously Senior Staff Attorney and Education Project Director at Legal Services for Children (LSC) in San Francisco. At LSC, she defended students in expulsion hearings and advocated on aEVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Yes, affirmative action does transform structural racism. Years ago, in graduate school, I did a lot of research on the history of the black labor movement, and the revolutionary developments including strikes in the steel industry and major court decisions – that black workers were responsible for that led to the policy of affirmative action, mandated by the courts, and administered NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primaryLESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals accepted an amicus brief (https://bit.ly/3wLmnwS) by the Equal Justice Society (EJS) and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC filed in Yu v.Idaho State University. The brief supports a former doctoral psychology candidate’s national origin discrimination suit arguing that implicit bias is probative and may be used as evidence of intentional discrimination under DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020INTENT STANDARD
Challenging the Intent Standard Driven by a vision of a society where race is no longer a barrier to opportunity, EJS is one of few institutions explicitly focused on overturning barriers to implementing the robust anti-discrimination protections inherent in the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. What is the intentZABRINA ALEGUIRE
Acting Legal Director January 11, 2016. through June 2016 Zabrina Aleguire is the Acting Legal Director at the Equal Justice Society (effective January 11, 2016). Zabrina was previously Senior Staff Attorney and Education Project Director at Legal Services for Children (LSC) in San Francisco. At LSC, she defended students in expulsion hearings and advocated on aEVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Yes, affirmative action does transform structural racism. Years ago, in graduate school, I did a lot of research on the history of the black labor movement, and the revolutionary developments including strikes in the steel industry and major court decisions – that black workers were responsible for that led to the policy of affirmative action, mandated by the courts, and administered NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primaryLESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters ABOUT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY About the Equal Justice Society The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-life experience. CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
EJS SUPPORTS TRANSFORMING PUBLIC SAFETY EJS Supports Transforming Public Safety. July 20, 2020 – Updated May 25, 2021. We are at a unique moment in our nation’s history. The 2020 pandemic of COVID-19 illuminated the realities of the centuries-old pandemic of structural racism that was only further exposed through the brutal murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor,and George
IMPLICIT BIAS PRIMER Implicit Bias Primer. Neuroscience and the study of implicit bias let us peer into the human brain and unravel the mysteries of why we treat each other with care or cruelty, show empathy or apathy, and legislate to help or to hurt. The primer below provides an overview of implicit bias theory and how it contributes to modern day discrimination. NEW REPORT: THE SUPREME COURT IS A GRAVE THREAT TO RACIAL The current right-wing Supreme Court majority is one of the greatest threats to racial justice and equity in recent American history, a new report from Take Back the Court and the Equal Justice Society argues. The six conservative justices’ judicial philosophies and jurisprudence on matters of race threaten progress on a wide range ofracial
SUPPORT AB 15 AND AB 16 TO PROTECT RENTERS As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, millions of California renters are staring down an eviction cliff as the current state eviction ban is set to expire on February 1. We need to immediately pass AB 15 and AB 16 by Assemblymember David Chiu to extend eviction protections for renters impacted by COVID-19 through next year, and establish aframework
AFRICAN AMERICANS STARTED MEMORIAL DAY African Americans Started Memorial Day. May 23, 2014. May 23, 2014. / Eva Paterson. Yesterday as I was driving from San Francisco to Oakland, I heard a news report on NPR that made me cry. Voter suppression, a.k.a. Voter ID laws, have gone into effect in Arkansas, my father’s birthplace.KELLY DERMODY
Kelly Dermody is Managing Partner of the San Francisco office and chair of the employment practice group at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP. Kelly represents employees and consumers in class, collective, and #metoo actions. Kelly currently serves as lead class counsel in five gender discrimination class actions against Fortune100 firms.
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 2 prohibiting construction of multifamily housing, and artificial intelligence programs used to determine creditworthiness for lending purposes.3 The 2013 rule further required the defendant to prove that the challenged practice is “necessary” to achieve a legitimate,nondiscriminatory
EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals accepted an amicus brief (https://bit.ly/3wLmnwS) by the Equal Justice Society (EJS) and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC filed in Yu v.Idaho State University. The brief supports a former doctoral psychology candidate’s national origin discrimination suit arguing that implicit bias is probative and may be used as evidence of intentional discrimination under CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-lifeexperience.
SUPPORT AB 15 AND AB 16 TO PROTECT RENTERS As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, millions of California renters are staring down an eviction cliff as the current state eviction ban is set to expire on February 1. We need to immediately pass AB 15 and AB 16 by Assemblymember David Chiu to extend eviction protections for renters impacted by COVID-19 through next year, and establish aframework
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Yes, affirmative action does transform structural racism. Years ago, in graduate school, I did a lot of research on the history of the black labor movement, and the revolutionary developments including strikes in the steel industry and major court decisions – that black workers were responsible for that led to the policy of affirmative action, mandated by the courts, and administeredCHRISTINA ALVERNAZ
Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow (2020-2022) Christina Alvernaz joined the Equal Justice Society in July 2020 as our 2020-2022 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow – a fellowship honoring the first African American woman to serve on the federal bench. The Motley Fellowship is funded by a generous gift fromElizabeth J.
LESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primary EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals accepted an amicus brief (https://bit.ly/3wLmnwS) by the Equal Justice Society (EJS) and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC filed in Yu v.Idaho State University. The brief supports a former doctoral psychology candidate’s national origin discrimination suit arguing that implicit bias is probative and may be used as evidence of intentional discrimination under CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-lifeexperience.
SUPPORT AB 15 AND AB 16 TO PROTECT RENTERS As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, millions of California renters are staring down an eviction cliff as the current state eviction ban is set to expire on February 1. We need to immediately pass AB 15 and AB 16 by Assemblymember David Chiu to extend eviction protections for renters impacted by COVID-19 through next year, and establish aframework
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Yes, affirmative action does transform structural racism. Years ago, in graduate school, I did a lot of research on the history of the black labor movement, and the revolutionary developments including strikes in the steel industry and major court decisions – that black workers were responsible for that led to the policy of affirmative action, mandated by the courts, and administeredCHRISTINA ALVERNAZ
Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow (2020-2022) Christina Alvernaz joined the Equal Justice Society in July 2020 as our 2020-2022 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow – a fellowship honoring the first African American woman to serve on the federal bench. The Motley Fellowship is funded by a generous gift fromElizabeth J.
LESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primary ABOUT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY About the Equal Justice Society The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-life experience. CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
EJS SUPPORTS TRANSFORMING PUBLIC SAFETY July 20, 2020 - Updated May 25, 2021 We are at a unique moment in our nation’s history. The 2020 pandemic of COVID-19 illuminated the realities of the centuries-old pandemic of structural racism that was only further exposed through the brutal murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd by police officers and WhiteINTENT DOCTRINE
The foundation of the Equal Justice Society (EJS) is based on the premise that racial justice cannot be achieved when the law fails to reflect actual experience. Under existing equal protection law, the constricted “Intent Doctrine” (as established in the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision Washington v. Davis) ignores much of what we know about the dynamicsINTENT STANDARD
Challenging the Intent Standard Driven by a vision of a society where race is no longer a barrier to opportunity, EJS is one of few institutions explicitly focused on overturning barriers to implementing the robust anti-discrimination protections inherent in the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. What is the intent NEW REPORT: THE SUPREME COURT IS A GRAVE THREAT TO RACIAL The current right-wing Supreme Court majority is one of the greatest threats to racial justice and equity in recent American history, a new report from Take Back the Court and the Equal Justice Society argues. The six conservative justices’ judicial philosophies and jurisprudence on matters of race threaten progress on a wide range ofracial
LISA HOLDER
Lisa Holder is Of Counsel with the Equal Justice Society. She served as EJS Interim Legal Director from November 2018 through April 2019. Lisa has been part of our legal team as a consulting attorney and/or co-counsel since 2016, helping us with our Kern High School Districtlitigation and
‘WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER FOR ONLY LOVE CAN CONQUER HATE Happy New Year. I hope you all had a break filled with love and rest for this year is going to be full of work and madness. I ran out of stamps and went to the post office for new ones and remembered that there is a new Gwen Ifill stamp. My post office in STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 2 prohibiting construction of multifamily housing, and artificial intelligence programs used to determine creditworthiness for lending purposes.3 The 2013 rule further required the defendant to prove that the challenged practice is “necessary” to achieve a legitimate,nondiscriminatory
‘LITIGATING IMPLICIT BIAS’ ARTICLE BY EVA PATERSON IN “Litigating Implicit Bias,” an article by EJS President Eva Paterson, appears in the latest issue of Poverty & Race, a bi-monthly newsletter by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.PRRAC is an organization that connects advocates with social scientists working on race and poverty issues and promotes a research-based advocacy strategy on structural inequality issues. EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY May 27, 2021. May 27, 2021. / Eva Paterson. Some of you know that I come from a military family. We lived outside of the U.S. during most of the 1950s. I was born in San Antonio, Texas, when Plessy v Ferguson was still good law. Before my family returned to the States in 1960, we toured France where we had been living. CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Yes, affirmative action does transform structural racism. Years ago, in graduate school, I did a lot of research on the history of the black labor movement, and the revolutionary developments including strikes in the steel industry and major court decisions – that black workers were responsible for that led to the policy of affirmative action, mandated by the courts, and administered SUPPORT AB 15 AND AB 16 TO PROTECT RENTERS As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, millions of California renters are staring down an eviction cliff as the current state eviction ban is set to expire on February 1. We need to immediately pass AB 15 and AB 16 by Assemblymember David Chiu to extend eviction protections for renters impacted by COVID-19 through next year, and establish aframework
CHRISTINA ALVERNAZ
Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow (2020-2022) Christina Alvernaz joined the Equal Justice Society in July 2020 as our 2020-2022 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow – a fellowship honoring the first African American woman to serve on the federal bench. The Motley Fellowship is funded by a generous gift fromElizabeth J.
LESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primary EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY May 27, 2021. May 27, 2021. / Eva Paterson. Some of you know that I come from a military family. We lived outside of the U.S. during most of the 1950s. I was born in San Antonio, Texas, when Plessy v Ferguson was still good law. Before my family returned to the States in 1960, we toured France where we had been living. CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Yes, affirmative action does transform structural racism. Years ago, in graduate school, I did a lot of research on the history of the black labor movement, and the revolutionary developments including strikes in the steel industry and major court decisions – that black workers were responsible for that led to the policy of affirmative action, mandated by the courts, and administered SUPPORT AB 15 AND AB 16 TO PROTECT RENTERS As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, millions of California renters are staring down an eviction cliff as the current state eviction ban is set to expire on February 1. We need to immediately pass AB 15 and AB 16 by Assemblymember David Chiu to extend eviction protections for renters impacted by COVID-19 through next year, and establish aframework
CHRISTINA ALVERNAZ
Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow (2020-2022) Christina Alvernaz joined the Equal Justice Society in July 2020 as our 2020-2022 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow – a fellowship honoring the first African American woman to serve on the federal bench. The Motley Fellowship is funded by a generous gift fromElizabeth J.
LESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primary ABOUT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY About the Equal Justice Society The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-life experience. CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
EJS SUPPORTS TRANSFORMING PUBLIC SAFETY EJS Supports Transforming Public Safety. July 20, 2020 – Updated May 25, 2021. We are at a unique moment in our nation’s history. The 2020 pandemic of COVID-19 illuminated the realities of the centuries-old pandemic of structural racism that was only further exposed through the brutal murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor,and George
INTENT DOCTRINE
The foundation of the Equal Justice Society (EJS) is based on the premise that racial justice cannot be achieved when the law fails to reflect actual experience. Under existing equal protection law, the constricted “Intent Doctrine” (as established in the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision Washington v. Davis) ignores much of what we know about the dynamicsINTENT STANDARD
Challenging the Intent Standard Driven by a vision of a society where race is no longer a barrier to opportunity, EJS is one of few institutions explicitly focused on overturning barriers to implementing the robust anti-discrimination protections inherent in the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. What is the intent NEW REPORT: THE SUPREME COURT IS A GRAVE THREAT TO RACIAL The current right-wing Supreme Court majority is one of the greatest threats to racial justice and equity in recent American history, a new report from Take Back the Court and the Equal Justice Society argues. The six conservative justices’ judicial philosophies and jurisprudence on matters of race threaten progress on a wide range ofracial
LISA HOLDER
Lisa Holder is Of Counsel with the Equal Justice Society. She served as EJS Interim Legal Director from November 2018 through April 2019. Lisa has been part of our legal team as a consulting attorney and/or co-counsel since 2016, helping us with our Kern High School Districtlitigation and
‘WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER FOR ONLY LOVE CAN CONQUER HATE Father, father. We don’t need to escalate. You see, war is not the answer. For only love can conquer hate. You know we’ve got to find a way. To bring some lovin’ here today, oh oh oh. Picket lines and picket signs. Don’t punish me with brutality. Talk to me, so you cansee.
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 2 prohibiting construction of multifamily housing, and artificial intelligence programs used to determine creditworthiness for lending purposes.3 The 2013 rule further required the defendant to prove that the challenged practice is “necessary” to achieve a legitimate,nondiscriminatory
‘LITIGATING IMPLICIT BIAS’ ARTICLE BY EVA PATERSON IN “Litigating Implicit Bias,” an article by EJS President Eva Paterson, appears in the latest issue of Poverty & Race, a bi-monthly newsletter by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.PRRAC is an organization that connects advocates with social scientists working on race and poverty issues and promotes a research-based advocacy strategy on structural inequality issues. EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY May 27, 2021. May 27, 2021. / Eva Paterson. Some of you know that I come from a military family. We lived outside of the U.S. during most of the 1950s. I was born in San Antonio, Texas, when Plessy v Ferguson was still good law. Before my family returned to the States in 1960, we toured France where we had been living. CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Yes, affirmative action does transform structural racism. Years ago, in graduate school, I did a lot of research on the history of the black labor movement, and the revolutionary developments including strikes in the steel industry and major court decisions – that black workers were responsible for that led to the policy of affirmative action, mandated by the courts, and administered SUPPORT AB 15 AND AB 16 TO PROTECT RENTERS As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, millions of California renters are staring down an eviction cliff as the current state eviction ban is set to expire on February 1. We need to immediately pass AB 15 and AB 16 by Assemblymember David Chiu to extend eviction protections for renters impacted by COVID-19 through next year, and establish aframework
CHRISTINA ALVERNAZ
Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow (2020-2022) Christina Alvernaz joined the Equal Justice Society in July 2020 as our 2020-2022 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow – a fellowship honoring the first African American woman to serve on the federal bench. The Motley Fellowship is funded by a generous gift fromElizabeth J.
LESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primary EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY May 27, 2021. May 27, 2021. / Eva Paterson. Some of you know that I come from a military family. We lived outside of the U.S. during most of the 1950s. I was born in San Antonio, Texas, when Plessy v Ferguson was still good law. Before my family returned to the States in 1960, we toured France where we had been living. CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELS As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Yes, affirmative action does transform structural racism. Years ago, in graduate school, I did a lot of research on the history of the black labor movement, and the revolutionary developments including strikes in the steel industry and major court decisions – that black workers were responsible for that led to the policy of affirmative action, mandated by the courts, and administered SUPPORT AB 15 AND AB 16 TO PROTECT RENTERS As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, millions of California renters are staring down an eviction cliff as the current state eviction ban is set to expire on February 1. We need to immediately pass AB 15 and AB 16 by Assemblymember David Chiu to extend eviction protections for renters impacted by COVID-19 through next year, and establish aframework
CHRISTINA ALVERNAZ
Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow (2020-2022) Christina Alvernaz joined the Equal Justice Society in July 2020 as our 2020-2022 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow – a fellowship honoring the first African American woman to serve on the federal bench. The Motley Fellowship is funded by a generous gift fromElizabeth J.
LESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primary ABOUT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY About the Equal Justice Society The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-life experience. CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
EJS SUPPORTS TRANSFORMING PUBLIC SAFETY EJS Supports Transforming Public Safety. July 20, 2020 – Updated May 25, 2021. We are at a unique moment in our nation’s history. The 2020 pandemic of COVID-19 illuminated the realities of the centuries-old pandemic of structural racism that was only further exposed through the brutal murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor,and George
INTENT DOCTRINE
The foundation of the Equal Justice Society (EJS) is based on the premise that racial justice cannot be achieved when the law fails to reflect actual experience. Under existing equal protection law, the constricted “Intent Doctrine” (as established in the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision Washington v. Davis) ignores much of what we know about the dynamicsINTENT STANDARD
Challenging the Intent Standard Driven by a vision of a society where race is no longer a barrier to opportunity, EJS is one of few institutions explicitly focused on overturning barriers to implementing the robust anti-discrimination protections inherent in the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. What is the intent NEW REPORT: THE SUPREME COURT IS A GRAVE THREAT TO RACIAL The current right-wing Supreme Court majority is one of the greatest threats to racial justice and equity in recent American history, a new report from Take Back the Court and the Equal Justice Society argues. The six conservative justices’ judicial philosophies and jurisprudence on matters of race threaten progress on a wide range ofracial
LISA HOLDER
Lisa Holder is Of Counsel with the Equal Justice Society. She served as EJS Interim Legal Director from November 2018 through April 2019. Lisa has been part of our legal team as a consulting attorney and/or co-counsel since 2016, helping us with our Kern High School Districtlitigation and
‘WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER FOR ONLY LOVE CAN CONQUER HATE Father, father. We don’t need to escalate. You see, war is not the answer. For only love can conquer hate. You know we’ve got to find a way. To bring some lovin’ here today, oh oh oh. Picket lines and picket signs. Don’t punish me with brutality. Talk to me, so you cansee.
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 2 prohibiting construction of multifamily housing, and artificial intelligence programs used to determine creditworthiness for lending purposes.3 The 2013 rule further required the defendant to prove that the challenged practice is “necessary” to achieve a legitimate,nondiscriminatory
‘LITIGATING IMPLICIT BIAS’ ARTICLE BY EVA PATERSON IN “Litigating Implicit Bias,” an article by EJS President Eva Paterson, appears in the latest issue of Poverty & Race, a bi-monthly newsletter by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.PRRAC is an organization that connects advocates with social scientists working on race and poverty issues and promotes a research-based advocacy strategy on structural inequality issues. EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY May 27, 2021. May 27, 2021. / Eva Paterson. Some of you know that I come from a military family. We lived outside of the U.S. during most of the 1950s. I was born in San Antonio, Texas, when Plessy v Ferguson was still good law. Before my family returned to the States in 1960, we toured France where we had been living. ABOUT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY About the Equal Justice Society The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-life experience. CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELSDEFUND THE POLICE DEFINITIONDEFUND THE POLICE MEANSDEFUND THE DEMOCRATSDEFUND THE MILITARYDEFUND THE NYPDDEFUND THE POLICE MEME As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
INTENT DOCTRINE
The foundation of the Equal Justice Society (EJS) is based on the premise that racial justice cannot be achieved when the law fails to reflect actual experience. Under existing equal protection law, the constricted “Intent Doctrine” (as established in the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision Washington v. Davis) ignores much of what we know about the dynamicsAFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Yes, affirmative action does transform structural racism. Years ago, in graduate school, I did a lot of research on the history of the black labor movement, and the revolutionary developments including strikes in the steel industry and major court decisions – that black workers were responsible for that led to the policy of affirmative action, mandated by the courts, and administered SUPPORT AB 15 AND AB 16 TO PROTECT RENTERS As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, millions of California renters are staring down an eviction cliff as the current state eviction ban is set to expire on February 1. We need to immediately pass AB 15 and AB 16 by Assemblymember David Chiu to extend eviction protections for renters impacted by COVID-19 through next year, and establish aframework
LESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY May 27, 2021. May 27, 2021. / Eva Paterson. Some of you know that I come from a military family. We lived outside of the U.S. during most of the 1950s. I was born in San Antonio, Texas, when Plessy v Ferguson was still good law. Before my family returned to the States in 1960, we toured France where we had been living. ABOUT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY About the Equal Justice Society The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Led by President Eva Paterson, our legal strategy aims to broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias by using social science, structural analysis, and real-life experience. CIVIL RIGHTS 50 LESSON PLANS The ‘Civil Rights at 50’ campaign led by the Equal Justice Society is promoting lesson plans originally based on Wherever There’s a Fight, the award-winning Heyday book by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi about the struggle to develop and protect rights in California. The lesson plans, created by Jennifer Rader and Jah-Yee Woo, are available DEFUNDING THE POLICE: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HISTORY, MODELSDEFUND THE POLICE DEFINITIONDEFUND THE POLICE MEANSDEFUND THE DEMOCRATSDEFUND THE MILITARYDEFUND THE NYPDDEFUND THE POLICE MEME As activists across the nation call for defunding the police, many attorneys and non-attorneys alike find these calls unrealistic, naïve or even dangerous. Why not reform the police? We at Equal Justice Society honor the work that activists and community organizers are doing to answer these questions and create new models for communitysafety, justice
STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020EVA PATERSON
Eva Paterson – Short Bio. A civil rights champion and litigator for more than four decades, Eva Jefferson Paterson is President and Co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Eva is a frequent speaker and commentator ontopics such
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The foundation of the Equal Justice Society (EJS) is based on the premise that racial justice cannot be achieved when the law fails to reflect actual experience. Under existing equal protection law, the constricted “Intent Doctrine” (as established in the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision Washington v. Davis) ignores much of what we know about the dynamicsAFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Yes, affirmative action does transform structural racism. Years ago, in graduate school, I did a lot of research on the history of the black labor movement, and the revolutionary developments including strikes in the steel industry and major court decisions – that black workers were responsible for that led to the policy of affirmative action, mandated by the courts, and administered SUPPORT AB 15 AND AB 16 TO PROTECT RENTERS As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, millions of California renters are staring down an eviction cliff as the current state eviction ban is set to expire on February 1. We need to immediately pass AB 15 and AB 16 by Assemblymember David Chiu to extend eviction protections for renters impacted by COVID-19 through next year, and establish aframework
LESLIE PROLL
Leslie Proll Civil Rights Attorney Leslie Proll is a civil rights lawyer in Washington, DC. Currently, she advises the NAACP on federal judicial nominations. She served as Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Transportation under President Obama, where she advised the Secretary of Transportation on civil rights matters STATUS OF THE DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT This memo was written to address the status of disparate impact discrimination analysis under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), following the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule and the Biden Administration’s response. The 2020 HUD rule, which would have gutted disparate impact as a means of establishing unlawful discrimination under the FHA, was enjoined in October 2020 CONTACT | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Subscribe to our email list If you have questions about the CARES Act COVID Relief stimulus payments to incarcerated folks, visit https://caresactprisoncase.org. ADDRESS Equal Justice Society 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 818 Oakland, CA 94612 info@equaljusticesociety.org 415-288-8700 main 510-338-3030 fax DOWNLOADS EJS logo, black and white, high resolution Click here todownload TIF file
EJS SUPPORTS TRANSFORMING PUBLIC SAFETY EJS Supports Transforming Public Safety. July 20, 2020 – Updated May 25, 2021. We are at a unique moment in our nation’s history. The 2020 pandemic of COVID-19 illuminated the realities of the centuries-old pandemic of structural racism that was only further exposed through the brutal murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor,and George
IMPLICIT BIAS TRAINING FOR PUBLIC DEFENDERS The Equal Justice Society Public Defender Training Program A counter-bias training tailored to Public Defenders, Appellate Defenders, Juvenile Defenders, and Dependency Court Advocates The training is a deep dive into the mind science of implicit bias as well as a study of manifestations of bias in the criminal process and its impact on defendants. NEW REPORT: THE SUPREME COURT IS A GRAVE THREAT TO RACIAL The current right-wing Supreme Court majority is one of the greatest threats to racial justice and equity in recent American history, a new report from Take Back the Court and the Equal Justice Society argues. The six conservative justices’ judicial philosophies and jurisprudence on matters of race threaten progress on a wide range ofracial
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Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow (2020-2022) Christina Alvernaz joined the Equal Justice Society in July 2020 as our 2020-2022 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow – a fellowship honoring the first African American woman to serve on the federal bench. The Motley Fellowship is funded by a generous gift fromElizabeth J.
‘WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER FOR ONLY LOVE CAN CONQUER HATE Father, father. We don’t need to escalate. You see, war is not the answer. For only love can conquer hate. You know we’ve got to find a way. To bring some lovin’ here today, oh oh oh. Picket lines and picket signs. Don’t punish me with brutality. Talk to me, so you cansee.
LISA HOLDER
Lisa Holder is Of Counsel with the Equal Justice Society. She served as EJS Interim Legal Director from November 2018 through April 2019. Lisa has been part of our legal team as a consulting attorney and/or co-counsel since 2016, helping us with our Kern High School Districtlitigation and
NANCY DOME | EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY Nancy Dome Epoch Education Dr. Nancy Dome has been supporting children to overcome institutional and systemic barriers and developing educators for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Child Care Worker, she has worked through the ranks as a classroom teacher, teacher leader, college professor, and now co-founder of Epoch Education. Epoch Education’s primary AFRICAN AMERICANS STARTED MEMORIAL DAY African Americans Started Memorial Day. May 23, 2014. May 23, 2014. / Eva Paterson. Yesterday as I was driving from San Francisco to Oakland, I heard a news report on NPR that made me cry. Voter suppression, a.k.a. Voter ID laws, have gone into effect in Arkansas, my father’s birthplace. EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY TRANSFORMING THE NATION'S CONSCIOUSNESS ON RACE THROUGH THE LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND THE ARTS. Menu Skip to content* Home
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ON TYRANNY: DEFEND INSTITUTIONS Featured / Eva Paterson Dear EJS Supporters, Several weeks ago before we were all sheltering in place, EJS received a $5,000 gift from Tom Given, my friend from my days at Northwestern. He once lent me his Pontiac Trans Am to drive with my friend Jim Fiddler AKA Weasel Piss to Wisconsin to go sky diving but that is another story … Continue reading On Tyranny:Defend Institutions
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AT LONG LAST – THE REMEMBERING 1619 VIDEO IS RELEASED Featured / Eva Paterson On August 20th, 2019, in the pre-Covid-19 world, many of us saw an amazing and transformative performance created by Faye Carol, Joanna Haigood, Marcus Shelby, Cheo Tyehimba-Taylor, David Goldberg, Kim Euell, Steven Anthony Jones, and Joe Warner. The performance took us from Mother Africa in the 1600s to the present day. In the intervening seven … Continue reading At Long Last – The Remembering 1619 Videois Released
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EJS 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION ON SEPTEMBER 17 AT HERBST THEATRE Featured / Keith Kamisugi 2020 is the 20th anniversary of the Equal Justice Society and we’re set to hold our celebration on Thursday, September 17, 2020, in San Francisco. We just confirmed Herbst Theatre as our venue! We are still working on the program for this special evening, but it will include Marcus Shelby performing a work inspired by … Continue reading EJS 20th Anniversary Celebration on September 17 at Herbst Theatre THIS WEEK IN WHITE SUPREMACY #123: “THE MODERN-DAY LYNCHING OFAHMAUD ARBERY”
May 8, 2020
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May 5 - James “Major” Woodall, state president, Georgia NAACP: "The modern-day lynching of Mr. Arbery is yet another reminder of the vile and wicked racism that persists in parts of our country. The slothfulness and inaction of D.A. Jackie Johnson of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit and George Barnhill of the Waycross Judicial Circuit are … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy #123: “The modern-day lynching of Ahmaud Arbery” EJS 20TH ANNIVERSARY – REFLECTING ON 2002 AND FOUNDING DONORS QUINN DELANEY AND WAYNE JORDANMay 8, 2020
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EJS founding donors Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan 2020 is the 20th anniversary of the Equal Justice Society. Every week leading up to our 20th anniversary celebration on September 17, we will highlight one year in our history. This week we remember 2002 and Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan who generously provided significant startup funding for … Continue reading EJS 20th Anniversary – Reflecting on 2002 and Founding Donors Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan EJS APPLAUDS COMMITTEE APPROVAL OF ACA 5; ONE STEP CLOSER TO REPEALINGPROP. 209
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Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber’s Bill Reinstating Affirmative Action in California Clears Critical First Hurdle On a vote of 6-1, the California Assembly Committee on Public Employment and Retirement today approved ACA 5, the bill by Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber to allow voters an opportunity to restore affirmative action and equal opportunity in California. The Opportunity … Continue reading EJS Applauds Committee Approval of ACA 5; One Step Closer to RepealingProp. 209
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION – PART OF THE STRATEGY FOR DISMANTLING STRUCTURALRACISM?
May 4, 2020
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Last week, we asked for your opinions regarding the impact of Affirmative Action policies on structural racism. Your perspectives enriched our understanding of these issues and we wanted to share some of our favorites below. I am a child of Affirmative Action. My inner city school did not send students to Northwestern. I was blessed … Continue reading Affirmative Action – Part of the Strategy for Dismantling Structural Racism? ISSUE 2: VOTER EMPOWERMENT AND EDUCATION NEWSLETTERMay 4, 2020
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Jennifer Waisath Harris on Twitter: "Louisiana lawmakers remotely VOTED BY MAIL to roll back an expansion of VOTE BY MAIL for voters. Yes, you read that correctly" / Twitter https://bit.ly/2Widnib Here's the election and voter protection news that has been front and center for us: Rush to Vote-by-Mail could cost Dems the Election - Greg … Continue reading Issue 2: Voter Empowerment and Education Newsletter EJS 20TH ANNIVERSARY – REFLECTING ON 2001 AND FOUNDING DONORS ELIZABETH J. CABRASER, JACK W. LONDEN May 1, 2020May 1, 2020/ Keith Kamisugi
EJS founding donors Elizabeth J. Cabraser (left) and Jack W. Londen 2020 is the 20th anniversary of the Equal Justice Society. Every week leading up to our 20th anniversary celebration on September 17, we will highlight one year in our history. This week we remember 2001 and Elizabeth J. Cabraser and Jack W. Londen who both … Continue reading EJS 20th Anniversary – Reflecting on 2001 and Founding Donors Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Jack W. Londen THIS WEEK IN WHITE SUPREMACY #122: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TRUMP’S LATEST IMMIGRATION BANMay 1, 2020
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CAIR-SFBA and Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus: The Trump administration recently issued a Proclamation expanding immigration restrictions in a broad attempt to further its xenophobic agenda while distracting Americans from its own failure to adequately respond to the coronavirus pandemic. In a blatant attempt to pit communities of color and immigrants against one another, the Proclamation … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy #122: What You Should Know About Trump’s Latest Immigration Ban EVA PATERSON ON ABC7 TOWN HALL ON COVID-19 IMPACT ON AFRICAN AMERICANSApril 29, 2020
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EJS President Eva Paterson will be a panel member on a virtual town hall hosted by ABC7/KGO-TV on Thursday, April 30, at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time. The town hall will be aired live on ABC7, on abc7news.com, and on ABC7's Facebook page. See more information below. Viewers are invited to submit questions for the town … Continue reading Eva Paterson on ABC7 Town Hall on COVID-19 Impact on African AmericansPOSTS NAVIGATION
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